This report by Holmes Rolston III (A.B., Davidson College; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia; Ph.D., Edinburgh University), who is pastor of the ...
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Appalachians have less education and more poverty compared to the rest of rural America, study finds
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - A recent study by the Appalachian Regional Commission is comparing rural Appalachia to the rest of rural America. Appalachians make up roughly 16% of the United States’ rural ...
Nearly a year has passed since a rare "hundred year flood" devastated the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky, an area known as "the mountains" that was already stricken by extreme poverty and ...
Strip coal mining has provoked a heap of feudin’ and fightin’ lately in the poverty-pocked Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. Behind the legal protection of mineral-rights grants dating from ...
Gayle Manchin is the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, set up to try to improve the economy in a region covering all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states, including ...
This story was produced through a collaboration between Radio IQ and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. Michelle Young and Jennifer Brady (Climate Central) contributed data ...
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